Sea Mist

by E.F. Benson

SEA MIST is the fifth and final volume in the Ash-Tree Press series of E. F. Benson's collected 'Spook Stories', and covers the period between December 1927 and 1940. In addition to bringing to gether a further seventeen sotires, the volume contains three marginal weird tales, a fascinating collection of articles in which Benson discusses such topics as J. S. Le Fanu, DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE, demoniacal possession, and the technique of the ghost story, together with the editor's final thoughts about one of the foremost writers of supernatural tales of the last century.

Genres: Horror

Hardcover

First published June 18, 2012

About the author

Edward Frederic "E. F." Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer.

E. F. Benson was the younger brother of A.C. Benson, who wrote the words to "Land of Hope and Glory", Robert Hugh Benson, author of several novels and Roman Catholic apologetic works, and Margaret Benson, an author and amateur Egyptologist.

Benson died during 1940 of throat cancer at the University College Hospital, London. He is buried in the cemetery at Rye, East Sussex.

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Reviews

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“Sir Roger de Coverley” (1927) ✭✭
“The Box at the Bank” (1928) ✭✭✭
“Pirates” (1928) ✭✭✭✭
“The Witch-Ball” (1928) ✭✭✭½
“The Hanging of Alfred Wadham” (1928) ✭✭½
“Atmospherics” (1928) ✭✭✭
“The Wishing-Well” (1929) ✭½
“Christopher Comes Back” (1929) ✭✭✭½
“The Bed by the Window” (1929) ✭✭✭
“The Shuttered Room” (1929) ✭✭✭
“The Flint Knife” (1929) ✭✭✭½
“James Lamp” (1930) ✭✭✭½
“The Step” (alternate title: “The Face”) (1931) ✭✭✭½
“The Sanctuary” (1934) ✭✭✭
“Monkeys” (1933) ✭✭✭½
“Sea Mist” (1933) ✭✭✭✭
“Dives and Lazarus” (1939) ✭✭½
“Undiscovered Fred”, Jack Adrian (2005) ✭✭✭
“Mrs. Andrews’s Control” (1915) ✭✭½
“The Clandon Crystal” (1901) ✭✭
“The Everlasting Silence” (1898) ✭½
“The Recent ‘Witch-Burning’ at Clonmel” (1895) ✭½
“The Fallacy at the Heart of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1925) ✭✭½
“May 29th, 1928” (1928) ✭✭½
“The Technique of the Ghost Story” (1929) ✭✭✭✭
“‘Our Sister, the Death of the Body’” (1930) ✭✭½
“An Unusual Autobiography” (1930) ✭✭½
“The Brontës” (1931) ✭✭✭
“Sheridan Le Fanu” (1931) ✭✭✭
“Demoniacal Possession” (1932) ✭✭
“The Murder of Alan Grebel” (1932) ✭✭✭
“Magic White and Black” (1934) ✭✭
“Once a Year” (1934) ✭✭✭½
“Social Customs in 1837” (1937) ✭✭
“The Ghost in the Secret Garden” (1940) ✭✭½
“Victorian Biography—and Afterwards” (1942) ✭✭✭

All entries by E. F. Benson except for “Undiscovered Fred” by the editor, Jack Adrian.